• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.545-558
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• 2010

Suicide is a serious social problem in Korean and suicide-related research on adolescents and the elderly has increased. However suicide-related studies of young adults are limited despite the increased trend of youth suicide and its ripple effect. This study, examines factors associated with the suicidal ideation of young adults based on the results of the 2009 Internet Society Survey that demonstrate the impact of suicide.

• 건강소식
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• v.25 no.4 s.269
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• pp.6-13
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• 2001

자살은 인류 역사의 시작과 함께 시작되어 시대의 변화나 문화의 차이에도 불구하고, 인류와 함께 있어 왔다. 우리나라는 최근 급속한 자살 사망률의 증가로 인해 자살이 심각한 보건학적, 사회적 문제가 되고 있다. 특히 IMF 경제위기를 겪으면서 실업, 빈곤화, 가족해체 등은 IMF경제위기 이전보다 자살사망률이 급증하는 결과를 초래하였다. 또한 기존의 가족이나 사회문제, 교육문제 등으로 인해 취약한 정신건강상태로 인해 자살욕구에 대한 전염력이 강한 청소년과 젊은 청년층에게 ‘자살 사이트’라는 인터넷 매체로의 접근은 자살이라는 전염병의 새로운 감염경로가 되고 있다. 이것은 국민들의 정신건강 상태가 위험수위에 이르고 있음을 나타낸다. 온전한 정신 건강은 육체적 건강을 위한 필수조건일 뿐만 아니라 활기찬 생활의 바탕이 된다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.135-143
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of early adolescents' depression on suicidal ideation and the mediating effects of self-esteem and life satisfaction in the process. For this purpose, the path analysis model for depression, self-esteem, life satisfaction, and suicidal ideation were used to examine the 225 early adolescent students of grades between 4 and 6 attending elementary school. The main results are as follows. First, the self-esteem of early adolescents was partially mediated between depression and suicidal ideation. Second, the satisfaction of life of early adolescents was partially mediated between depression and suicidal ideation. In other words, in order to lower the suicidal ideation of early adolescents, various programs are need to be developed to improve self-esteem and life satisfaction, as well as apply them to practice.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.31-82
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was development of a synthetic scale to measure young adults' views of life and death. Participants were 610 university students. The authors developed a View of Life and Death Scale including several subscales of afterlife views(belief in afterlife and retribution, belief in souls' effects and transmigration), meanings of death(liberation, nature, integration, collapse, impact, futility), death anxiety, death concern(death acceptance, death awareness) and life respect will(suicide inhibition, abortion inhibition, organ donation intention). The present study contributed to enhance our understanding of view of life and death in young adulthood. This study, therefore, could work as a stepping stone to investigate the structural relationship among elements included in views of life and death in young adulthood and to explore the consequences and determinants of personal view of life and death.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.635-640
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• 2018

The study conducted a Focus Group Interview (FGI) on college students to identify single-person households and Solitary Deaths of single-person households recognized by college students. This can be provided as basic data to address problems in single-person households and social problems such as future youth solitary death and will contribute to building a social safety net. This study conducted FGI to analyze data for five fourth graders majoring in social welfare. In the case of involuntary independent living, the high poverty and unemployment rate of single-person households was cited as the cause of economic instability, housing problems and emotional relationship formation. He said that he thinks about young loneliness because he has vague fears about what happens in the media and what can happen to them. As the number of young single-person households will inevitably increase in the coming months and economic difficulties are the biggest problem and the biggest cause of young solitude, institutional support is needed first, especially for housing costs.

• Sim-seong Yeon-gu
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-30
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• 2022

This text is an attempt to understand the psychological meaning of panic attacks occurring in the young people in their early twenties who play music. A panic attack is a type of anxiety neurosis known to occur primarily in their twenties and is characterized by extreme fear and terror accompanied by various symptoms in the autonomic nervous system. Situations with occurring panic attacks were examined in three cases combined with panic attacks and mood swings, suicidal ideation, and self-mutilating behaviors, and the psychological meaning of panic attacks was reviewed for each case. In the first case, panic attacks make one think or reflect with consciousness for someone who wants to remain unconscious. In the second case, for one who hesitates to move forward in life and finds oneself in conflict, panic attacks open the inner mind and allow one to come in touch with one's deeper mind, thereby opening possibilities to transcend the conflict. In the third case, one experience the instinct and impulse of desiring to realize the unconsciousness as panic attacks and thereafter consciously realize the impulse as well. Their panic attacks, which all seem to have different meanings, are likely a powerful approach of the unconsciousness to urge a renewal from the consciousness level of the youth period.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.107-113
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• 2008

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the degree and relationship between self-esteem, depression, and suicidal ideation of youths in the auxiliary police force. Method: This descriptive study was conducted using a structured questionnaire from February 1 to March 25, 2007. The participants were 180 youths from 19 to 25 years old (average 20.82 years old) who were auxiliary policemen. The data were analyzed using the SPSS Win 12.0 program. Results: Six of the auxiliary police (3.34%) reported critical scores in suicidal ideation. There was a significant difference in depression according to work area. Self-esteem showed a significant negative correlation with depression (r=-0.38, p<.001) and suicidal ideation (r=-0.39, p<.001). There was a positive correlation between depression and suicidal ideation(r=0.53, p<.001). Conclusion: The findings suggest that auxiliary policemen have higher levels of depression and suicidal ideation. Therefore, further study is needed to develop and examine nursing interventions the enhance self-esteem, so that depression and suicidal ideation can be minimized.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.977-985
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• 2016

Homelessness is recognized as a problem of lack of housing as well as a social problem entangled by complex problems such as unemployment, family breakdown, social exclusion, health and suicide. In order to search for the specificity of any particular addiction type, we conducted a survey on the addiction and mental health status of the homeless. One of our findings indicated that alcoholism was mainly found more in older homeless; however, internet game and smart phone addiction was found more in younger generations. We hope that our study is meaningful as a typification work at the current stage because there have been few studies in Korea on homeless youth and no study about homeless people's addiction problems other than alcoholism.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.201-207
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• 2021

This study investigated the effects of self-esteem on the depression of baby boomer and eco-boomer generation (the children of baby boomers) living alone. It was identified from the point of view of comparison between the two groups. Using the 15th data of the 2020 Korea Welfare Panel, an independent sample t-test and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted with the data of baby boomers who live alone (born in 1955-1963) and eco-boomers who live alone (born in 1979-1992). The results of this study show that baby boomers who live alone had lower levels of education, income, and health condition than the eco-boomers who live alone, and had higher level of depression, but relatively lower level of self-esteem. In both groups, self-esteem had an effect on depression, but it was confirmed that the influence was greater in the group of baby boomers (Adjusted R2 .259) than in eco-boomers (Adjusted R2 .083). Based on the results of this study, practical and policy alternatives were suggested to prevent the depression among middle-aged, elderly people, and young adults who live alone.